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Hey! It’s been a month since I last posted. I’ve thought a lot about writing something of finishing something I’ve already started, but I never got around to it. Now, I have a new idea! I “waste” a lot of time on a meme website called 9GAG. Right now, someone’s started a trend of making a list of “need to know” songs and putting their list on 9GAG. I thought I should hop on the train and make such a list of my own. The first one that started this trend (that I noticed, at least), had a rule not to include more than one song per artist/band, and so I wanted to do the same, but realized that it was too difficult for some bands, so I only tried to not include too many. I will just dive right into it, with no arrangement to the order in which I list the songs I feel you need to know. (of course this will be mainly rock/metal, since that’s my forte, but I might include some other songs as well, if I feel like you really need to know/listen to them).
I’ve made the list in Spotify, so you can go in and have a listen right away. Might get back to this post later and make a YouTube-playlist of it as well, but for now Spotify will have to do.

Disturbed – The Sound Of Silence / Down With The Sickness

Evanescence – Bring Me To Life / My Immortal

Paramore – Misery Business

Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit

Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare / Afterlife

Black Sabbath – Iron Man

AC/DC – Thunderstruck

Foo Fighers – The Best Of You

Bullet For My Valentine – Tears Don’t Fall

Rage Against The Machine – Killing In The Name

Slipknot – Psychosocial / Duality

Kings of Leon – Sex On Fire

Royal Blood – Better Stangers

Linkin Park – Numb / Faint

Machine Head – Darkness Within / Davidian

Korn – Thoughtless

Coldplay – Fix You

Imagine Dragons – Radioactive

Helloween – Mr. Torture

Halestorm – Love Bites (So Do I)

Ghost B.C. – Cirice

Dimmu Borgir – Gateways

Five Finger Death Punch – Coming Down / House Of The Rising Sun

Audioslave – Show Me How To Live

Soundgarden – Live To Rise

Drowning Pool – Bodies

The Cranberries – Zombie

Brandi Carlile – The Story

Deftones – Change (In The House Of Flies)

AWOLNATION – Sail

Johnny Cash – Hurt

Dream Theater – A Nightmare To Remember

Nomy – Cocaine

Radiohead – Creep

Tribal Ink – Refugee

Avantasia – The Scarecrow

The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris

Amy Lee – Lockdown

Ed Sheeran – I See Fire

System Of A Down – B.Y.O.B.

Volbeat – Still Counting

Alice Cooper – Poison

Metallica – Enter Sandman

Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine

Breaking Benjamin – So Cold

Iron Maiden – Fear Of The Dark

Dio – Rainbow In The Dark / Holy Diver

Rammstein – Du Hast

Device/Lzzy Hale – Close My Eyes Forever

Lady Gaga – Til It Happens To You

Muse – Plug In Baby

Rise Against – Hero Of War

Chevelle – The Red

Thee Days Grace – I Hate Everything About You

Axel Rudi Pell – Glory Night

In Flames – Alias

My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade

Green Day – 21 Guns

Elton John – Candle In The Wind

There’s just a handful of these songs that I don’t know every single word to, but they still evoke something in me that makes me think everyone should hear them. These songs are iconic to me, representing the band, the genre and the time period they were produced in perfectly. A few of these are covers, but I included them because they are so good that I feel they both do justice to the original artists and the songs, in addition to the covers being iconic themselves.

Links to the two lists that I found already, there are some very good songs in there, and some I have yet to check out.

Am I missing something obvious to you? Would you perhaps replace the song I’ve chosen by a(n) artist/band? What would be your most iconic/”need to know”-songs? Please let me know in the comment section.

“So paint it black and take it backLets shout it loud and clearDo you fight it to the endWe hear the call toTo carry onWe’ll carry on”
(Welcome To The Black Parade – My Chemical Romance)

A lot has happened lately. Sad, tragic events driven by hate, evil, and even carelessness. The mass-shooting in Orlando, among other things. The revealing of decades of sexual assault among people in a community in my home county, is another. On top of that, several accidental deaths of people, gone too soon. Actually, the last year has been just all messed up. I don’t have any words to describe the feeling I have, really. Many of my favorite artists have made some great music addressing hate, disaster, and death, and so, I have made a playlist of songs that deal with these topics, that maybe can put words and sound to these feelings. You can subscribe to my Spotify list or go check it out on YouTube. If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them. Take care of each other.

Disturbed – Who Taught You How To Hate

Evanescence – My Heart Is Broken

Avenged Sevenfold – Tonight The World Dies

Machine Head – Damage Inside

Five Finger Death Punch – Coming Down

Alter Bridge – Blackbird

Amy Lee feat. Dave Eggar – Lockdown

Korn – Thoughtless

Avenged Sevenfold – Almost Easy

Evanescence – Together Again

Lady Gaga – Til It Happens To You

Seether feat. Amy Lee – Broken

Avenged Sevenfold – Save Me

Machine Head – Who We Are

Slipknot – Dead Memories

Evanescence – Oceans

We Are The Fallen – Don’t Leave Me Behind

Avenged Sevenfold – Seize The Day

Linkin Park – No More Sorrow

Evanescence – My Last Breath

Machine Head – Is There Anybody Out There?

“Tell me now, who taught you how to hate?Cause it isn’t in your blood, not a part of what you’re made”
(Who Taught You How To Hate – Disturbed)

Hi there! As I was telling you in the last post, I have kind of taken a one-year (and then some) vacation from my blogging, and there is some things I’ve wanted to show you but haven’t gotten around to yet. I realize I never got to write about the Avenged Sevenfold concert that I went to November 2013. I can’t remember all the details now, so I’ll just say that except for almost passing out and getting stomped on by several mosh pits, it was amazing, and even better than I expected. They really are as good live as they are in the studio, and maybe even better. Their playing is impeccable.

So, abut this playlist: about two months ago, I was planning my return to the blogosphere, and after the past few months regaining my music excitement and inspiration, I made a playlist for myself of some of the songs I’ve gotten most excited about this past year-or-so. I will eventually blog about the songs that’s on this list, and some I’ve already blogged about, so don’t freak out that you haven’t heard them on this platform before. For now I’ll just leave this here for you to listen to and judge for yourselves.

Paramore – Now

Amy Lee (feat. Dave Eggar) – Lockdown

Audioslave – Show Me How To Live

Avenged Sevenfold – St. James

Machine Head – Now We Die

System Of A Down – B.Y.O.B

Korn feat. Amy Lee – Freak On A Leash (live)

Avenged Sevenfold – I Won’t See You Tonight Part 1

Disturbed – Stricken

Imagine Dragons – Battle Cry

Evanescence – If You Don’t Mind

Machine Head – Game Over (added to the list today because it’s stuck in my head, and I get excited by listening to it!)

… and no posts published. That didn’t mean I didn’t listen to music, it just meant I needed a break. A long one. Too much other things to do. Life happened. Whatever. Now, I have thought many a time about starting this thing up again, but then I would fall asleep, or I run out of hot water, or my class started. I’ve even written some posts over the year, but never gotten around to post them.
I’ve listened to a lot of good music the last year, and came to the conclusion that good music needs to be listened to loudly, so I even changed my under-title.

Right now I’m supposed to write a hand-in for my psychology-class, but the music I was supposed to listen to IN THE BACKGROUND was more interesting than the task at hand. I cranked the volume up, and now I’m writing inspired by these wonderful tunes. I have so much to show you, even though you’ve probably heard it before, or at least should have heard it before. There’s been at least a couple of new albums that’s worth a listen-through the past year, so I have my work cut out for me.

So, for a start-up tune, I’ve chosen this; old, but gold:

Deep and dark, just like Amy herself, with hints of sinister forces. The choir, the instruments, the voice – wonderfully composed.

Hey there! So, suddenly inspired and after checking that I didn’t do anything with this song before, I chose today to write about Weight Of The World by Evanescence. The song was published on the album The Open Door in 2006. Here are the lyrics. Listen and enjoy.

The intro is really rocking and cool, and I like the sound of Amy’s voice when she sings “Feels like the weight of the world, like God in heaven gave me a turn”, it sounds almost distorted, I think it’s really cool. I also like the choir, especially in verse two, the wailing sound fits the song perfectly. Amy’s vocals are rocking this song, and the most awesome feature in this song is the incredible falsetto voice she goes into towards the end, and what’s more incredible is that she does that live as well! The whole song is influenced by the attitude in Amy’s voice, just awesome. The lyrics are a little dark, and seems even darker by the sound of the song. The riffs are rocking too, and the drums… you hear it even better in the live version how cool it is. It’s brilliant.
So, here is a live version of the song from Rock In Rio 2011, hope you enjoy this as well, it’s such a great performance.

“Feels like the weight of the worldLike all my screaming has come unheard”
(Weight Of The World – Evanescence)

Hey there! Okay, so today’s post is not going to be the conventional kind of blog post… I just had to share with you this pearl of a clip of Evanescence that I found on Twitter (and also retweeted, of course!), which I personally loved. This is Disappear off their album Evanescence (2011). So, I’m not going to comment on Amy’s amazing vocals and awesome playing of the band, even not the crazy, surprising and cool guitar solo, because I know you can hear it, I’m just posting this clip and saving the comments for a later occasion. Listen and enjoy!

“Don’t you want to feel?Don’t you want to live your life?How much longer are you gonna give into the fear
I can’t go on pretending
So give me something real
No one in your way but you
How much longer are you gonna give into the fearHolding you down ’til you disappear”
(Disappear – Evanescence)

Hello! Today I’m doing a post on the song Everybody’s Fool by Evanescence. The song was published on the album Fallen in 2003, and it was the fourth single off the album. Here are the lyrics, and below is the music video.

(I added a version without the sound effects and the music video intro, because that may be very disturbing to some people)

I really like this song because I understand Amy’s intentions about writing it. She said that she wrote the song about celebrities with completely false images, and exposing that it’s all fake. “You’re not real and you can’t save me”. I think this song is amazing, and it deals with something important as well, which makes it even better. Of course I love the lyrics, and I think the vocals of Amy is stunning as usual, so powerful and beautiful. The guitars and drums sound good, and it all sounds so complete together, I just love it, and this reminds me of how great a band Evanescence was and still really is.

“Without the mask, where will you hide?Can’t find yourself, lost in your lieI know the truth now, I know who you areAnd I don’t love you anymore”
(Everybody’s Fool – Evanescence)

Since yesterday was the 10th year anniversary of Evanescence’s debut album Fallen, (and since I wasn’t able to post this yesterday) I thought I would post the very debut single off the album, and to this day, the most famous song by the band of all times, and my favorite song. Here is Bring Me To Life by Evanescence.

Congratulations, world, on the World Evanescence Day (yesterday, March 4th), and congratulations to Evanescence for a fantastically successful album and 10 great years with the amazing sound of it.

And also, here is the complete album for you as well, since I’m such a nice person!

Tracklist:

Going Under

Bring Me To Life

Everybody’s Fool

My Immortal

Haunted

Tourniquet

Imaginary

Taking Over Me

Hello

My Last Breath

Whisper

My Immortal (Band Version)

“Wake me up insideWake me up insideCall my name and save me from the darkBid my blood to run before I come undoneSave me from the nothing I’ve becomeBring me to life”
(Bring Me To Life – Evanescence)

“Frozen inside without your touch, without your love, darlingOnly you are the life among the dead”
(Bring Me To Life – Evanescence)

Hi there! So, as you all may know, yesterday was Valentines Day, but I really didn’t feel like, nor have the time to do a “romantic” post, so instead, I’ll do you one better, by writing about a song by the band I love the most! Yes, this time I’m writing about Imaginary by Evanescence. The song was published on their album Fallen in 2003. Here are the lyrics. Enjoy!

It actually took me a while to get used to this song. I couldn’t understand the lyrics, and because of that I couldn’t fully enjoy it. Now, on the other hand, I get them, and I really like them. Amy’s voice is strong, simply impeccable, as she sings these words of deeper meaning. The band is great, with awesome guitars, the piano, the strings, the beat. It just rocks so hard.
And… as a little treat for you, I added the live version of Imaginary from Anywhere But Home (2004). Hope you enjoy this awesome piece of well-constructed sound as much as I do!

“I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refugeThe nightmare I built my own world to escape”
(Imaginary – Evanescence)

Hello there! Yep, it’s time for another song by Halestorm! This time it’s Break In off the album The Strange Case Of… (2012). Here are the lyrics.

The melody of this song is very beautiful. It’s a very calm and sweet song, compared to the rest of Halestorm’s repertoire, and so good. Lzzy’s voice is much more vulnerable when not accompanied by rough guitars and drums, but still very powerful. The lyrics are so sweet and great, well written.

I really wanted to show you a special live version of the song that was performed on every show of the Carnival of Madness Tour last year. You see, since both Evanescence and Halestorm were on the same tour, Lzzy and Amy Lee decided to work together on this song. Here you see the (in my opinion) fantastic result of the collaboration:

“You let me fall apart without letting goThen you pick up the pieces and you make me whole”
(Break In – Halestorm)